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Several blogs are reporting that eBay is starting to look less solid than before. That the giant online marketplace is at a crunch time in it’s history and need to decide on a new road ahead.

Some claim that eBay’s troubles are their own fault. I agree to some extend. But I also think that eBay has been overtaken by developments in net behaviour and that this is where the lesson lies. [Read more →]

According to ReadWriteWeb, Jupiter Research has released a report looking at how corporations monitor User Generated Content (UGC) of relevance to them. Or put another way: How they keep up with the online conversations regarding their products.

Surprise! They don’t. Not really anyway. And you have to sit down and wonder why that is.

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Seth Godin had an interesting post about how proximity to pain provides with the best options for creating a truly great business, ie the bigger pain point you solve, the more successful your business will be.

He argues that this is precisely why Google and the Yellow Pages are so massively successful: They are there to solve a pain - finding the right information NOW - whenever their customers need it. All good. But what about newspapers? [Read more →]

The Danish IAB, FDIM, has released an interesting new report which for the first time really shows a combined overview of how Danes use the internet.

It’s interesting numbers. I’m not going to quote them here but just suffice to say that if you look at it from a Danish language perspective, the worst fears of international dominance seems unfounded. Only a few sites international sites make it to the top 20. And in weird ways thats precisely the problem. [Read more →]

One of the most exciting things about the times we live in is that barriers of entry into new markets with new products are getting close to zero. At least from a technological point-of-view. Its the idea rather than your financial clout that makes great things possible.

A front-runner for this has been Amazon, who through its Amazon Web Services have made computing and storage in the cloud an almost free proposition for would be entrepreneurs. And now they are looking towards great competition from someone who wants to make it completely free. [Read more →]

I have often wondered where this whole social thing on the web is taking us - if anywhere? Om Malik of GigaOM wonders too and asks for a deeper meaning in a post entitled “The Social Map To Where”. His conclusion: The overwhelming majority of todays social apps and services wouldn’t be missed, if they disappeared from the face of the planet tomorrow.

Fundamentally, I share Om’s view. I think a lot of these apps live on little more than the initial buzz alone. But I do not for a second doubt that what we’re seeing is essentially a shift in paradigms for how technology can be of assistance to people. [Read more →]